I was the kind of kid who did the bare minimum in grade school. If a teacher called for an assignment of two to four pages, I wrote two and a quarter pages. I got to the point. It usually got me an A or a B. That was my way. All of my grades were a mix of A's and B's.
I went to school for engineering. Then spent twenty plus years working in finance. Neither of which called for a lot of writing.
Now I've published (or am about to) a story with over twenty nine thousand words. It will probably take another 40k plus words to finish it. And I have at least five more story ideas on paper. Two of them have a rough chapter already written.
I guess I'm saying, you never know how life is going to turn out.
I'm reviewing chapter 7 of New Beginning now. I'll send it out for proofing later today. Maybe I'll be able to publish on New Years. If not look for it on Jan 4.
Happy New Years.